Brodie and Stone Headquarters
Central London

Client
Brodie and Stone

 

Lighting Designer
Future Group Lighting Design
020 8925 0009
FutureGroup.co.uk

 

Interior Designer
Jump Studio
of London
020 7650 7800

 

Main Contractor
Office Projects
020 8704 6617

 

Contractor
A+R Electrical

 

Product Used
17 x 400W and 300W 12V and 24V Dimming VoltMaster also 45 special potentiometers to control analogue LED Lighting C/W Backboxes

Brodie and Stone needed a modern; fresh, crisp and cheerful place to design their marketing of cosmetics and meet their clients. The stylish bespoke coloured interior spaces needed lighting to match and add a hint of playfulness.

Photography Peter Phillipson © Future Group Lighting Design

Brief
The client markets many cosmetic brands and wanted a suitable environment in which to work in. Good colour rendition and reliability were important for the main lighting. Whilst the decorative coloured light boxes had to work continuously and be easily altered (for colour) without the need for fussy programming.

 

Challenges
To obviate the need to constantly pull down luminaires to access transformers. To predict the entire installation cabling design so that once the false plasterboard ceiling was erected, there would be no need to run any more cables in. The client also wanted the ability to play with look of the scheme without too much fuss. A digital system to control the 17 light boxes with coloured LEDs would have been too cumbersome. So a digital system was used to set the mood of the main ceiling lighting only, but the light boxes, forming a vertical visual stimuli, would need to be a joy to play with.

 

Result
The Voltmasters were located in an air cooled main intake room and in a header piece of a floor to ceiling unit specially designed to breath into void but allow access if required. The Tungsten Halogen lighting enhances the compact fluorescent, used to save energy, with some scenes featuring them alone when needed. The pure white “full up” colour of the new IRC TH lamps run at their correct voltage produced a stunning visual effect whilst saving 30% of the electricity that would be consumed hitherto.

 

The LED light boxes featured in the photograph can have their colour altered effortlessly with Multiload’s Unashamably Analogue™ rotary potentiometers. It means that any unit can be any colour without any of the normal restrictions that some potentiometers offer and visitors can twiddle “àvolonté”.

The client was delighted with the result.

 

“Voltmaster has become the default option when designing serious professional projects requiring tungsten halogen lighting”

Peter Phillipson
Future Group Lighting Design